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Flyboys (2003) (edit title/settings)

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This acclaimed bestseller brilliantly illuminates a hidden piece of World War II history as it tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific. One of them, George H. W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. The fate of the others-an explosive 60-year-old secret-is... read more

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  • - Context and Personal Stories of Navy Flyers who attacked Chichi Jima in 1945
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  • “A "sense of superiority...caused <the German and Japanese people> to feel that invasion of other countries and annihilation of other races was justified." (p. 137)”
    Frank Gibney - Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War
  • “"Nations tend to see the other side's war atrocities as systemic and indicative of their culture and their own atrocities as justified or the acts of stressed combatants." (p. 329)”
  • “"I believe any culture can be indoctrinated into any attitude that the leaders want to teach them." (p. 329-330)”
    Glen Berry - WWII vet and survivor of Bataan Death March, 2 Hell Ships, and Fukuoka prision camp
  • “"I hold no rancor in my heart for my former enemy."”
    George Bush - Former President and WWII fighter pilot
  • “"No one ever won a war by dying for their country. They won by making the other son-of-a-bitch die for his."”
    George Patton
  • “" Staring at the sky, the former Flyboy (President George H.W. Bush) said, 'I think about those guys all the time." pg 199 Earlier in the interview he had said "It still plagues me if I gave those guys enough time to get out." When talking about his crew when his plan was shot down.”
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  • A true samurai would agree with U.S. Army general George Patton that “no one ever won a war by dying for their country. They won by making the other son-of-a-bitch die for his.”
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  • Few people now reflect that samurai swords killed more people in WWII than atomic bombs. WWII veteran Paul Fussell wrote, “The degree to which Americans register shock and extraordinary shame about the Hiroshima bomb correlates closely with lack of information about the Pacific war.”
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  • One hundred thousand Americans would die in the Pacific war, while Japan would suffer about 2.5 million military and civilian casualties fighting the U.S. and China. No one will ever know for sure, but estimates are that nearly 30 million Chinese died in the Rape of China.
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  • America would cause the deaths of more than 250,000 Filipinos—men, women, and children—from the beginning of the hostilities on February 4, 1899, to July 4, 1902, when President Roosevelt declared the Philippines “pacified.”
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  • Incredibly, Allied bullets accounted for only one third of all Japanese troop fatalities in the Pacific war. The Spirit Warriors’ lack of strategy and planning accounted for most deaths.
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  • In retaliation for the Doolittle Raid, the Japanese sprayed cholera, typhoid, and bubonic plague across East China, making Japan the only combatant of WWII to use biological warfare.
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  • Kamikaze means “god” (kami) “wind” (kaze).
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  • “A quarter million Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed in the three-month campaign.” Two hundred and fifty thousand Chinese dead in three months. In six years of combat during WWII, France lost 108,000 civilians, Belgium 101,000, the Netherlands 242,000. This Japanese retaliatory operation, invisible to the world at the time, would take more lives than the later atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
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  • As the Japanese studied the ways of the westerners, they could plainly see that successful nations were rich ones. And it was clear that rich nations got that way by subjugating non-Christian countries, enslaving their peoples and appropriating their resources.
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  • There were challenges everywhere for an America that had been caught off guard with the sixteenth largest military in the world, behind Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and Romania.
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First Sentence edit see section history

THE E-MAIL WAS FROM IRIS CHANG, author of the groundbreaking bestseller The Rape of Nanking.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. James Bradley (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Scott Levine (Cover Artist)
  2. Horace Bristol (Photographer)
  3. George Ward
  4. Bernard Klein (Designer)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0316105848
Page Count: 414

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: D804.J3 B73 2003
  • Dewey: 940.540509528

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